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Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 11:37:11 -0700

> At 11:33 AM 2/1/99 -0500, W Gerald Hicks wrote:
>  
> >Is it really that important to attract a horde of whiny
> >Windows users into FreeBSD?  
> 
> Actually, yes. FreeBSD is now seen as having faded into
> insignificance as Linux gathers steam. And folks who
> don't understand WHY that's happened are assuming that
> it must be inferior in quality. FreeBSD is getting
> slammed unfairly, and the core team isn't getting the
> credit and respect it deserves for its hard, high
> quality work.

Nonsense I say!  (Too much Yin demands equal Yang :)

Who can prove it, but I'd guess at a minimum 50% increase
per year growth in user base over the past two years.

Anything into double digits seems very respectable to me.

> The way to fix this *is* to broaden the user base.

Napoleonic thinking.  Don't agree.

The way to fix this is to take more of the available 
mindshare, those able and willing to contribute back
into the product. 

Here is something that even Microsoft seems to be afraid
of;

> 
> Don't worry that they'll overload the developers
> with FAQs. The newbies will start to help one another.
> It's happened elsewhere.

Right.  Like over on the COL* newsgroups?


Cheers,

Jerry Hicks
wghicks@bellsouth.net

> 
> --Brett
> 

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